So I put on the canal phones and gave the new one a deep listen. I thought it was pretty good the first few times but holy shit this thing just clicked. these songs are absolutly great. I love the minor tone to most of the songs and they end up major. It might just have kicked it's self into top possition of the year so far.

Spencer Krug writes some amazingly thoughtful and abstract lyrics as well. give this disc an intense listen and disagree if you must. anyway...great disk

and A-Team...yeah I know. sorry pal

i agree, this is great. Spencer Krug is becoming quite a songwriter.

yep, fantastic record.

i still prefer Dan's vocals a bit to Spencer's, but Spencer is def a fantastic songwriter.

Anybody know the release date for this?

Yes, this is an excellent album.

It's not obvious at first: the songs are looser than and don't have the catchiness of Wolf Parade, but they're great in their own way. Love the melancholy mood throughout.

Spencer has one of the best voices around today.

Okay you hipsters, stop droppin' names and give it to me straight. I need a band or artist name (the kind you find on those dividers in the ol' record store) and an album name (which, I can assume is That Sunset Rubdown. Though, at first, I thought I had stumbled on a stray ETC. thread about masturbation). I don't quite have my finger on the pulse the way simakos does, and this album sounds intriguing. Spencer this. Dan that. Hipsters...always dropping names and talking in code.

band name = Sunset Rubdown
album name = Shut Up I Am Dreaming
release date = May 2nd (same as Pearl Jam & Tool)

I knew I could count on you solace, thanks. Hey, I think we were both at that Nada Surf/Rogue Wave show back on the 3rd at the Fineline. Good show, eh? I like how the sound guy snuck that leaked Flaming Lips track in during the set break.

yup! and yeah it was a really great show

yeah there were a few "leaked" tracks played that night, Free Radicals, a new Built To Spill song, and something else.

i finally got a copy of the whole album, and i also am placing it at the top of my '06 list so far (along with Destroyer and Man Man). its a shame that "A Day in the Graveyard II" didnt make it on the album though. that is my fav Sunset Rubdown track by far. i guess ill just have to order the EP...no biggie

I'm bumping this thread, because this album is GREAT!


and here's the fucking YSI to prove it, ladies.


Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

hxxp://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06KB6E8P7RMY80G3W43WOKMJ2V


as i indicated in the other thread, this album rubs Rubies into the dirt.

"rubs Rubies into the dirt" is slightly harsh, but i do have to agree that "Shut Up" edges out Destroyer for the top spot of my preemptive "Best of 06" list. both albums are orgasmic, though, and make me very happy in my loins...

this release is going to bury those losers.

An awesome cover to go along with an amazing album! The release date seems so far away it hurts. Tool/Pearl Jam had better leak one hell of an album if they want to get my money come May 2nd, since i have a moral obligation not to buy 3 albums on one day, and as of right now my money is going to Mr. Krug & Co.

yeah, Vedder's head will be spinning when the Rubdown does a takedown of the avocado.

Krug's gonna be the guacamole king.

the best moment on the whole album is when the beautiful 7-minute opus "The Men are Called Horsemen There" ends, and then the keyboards kick in for the following track "Q-Chord". that is the moment when i forget about all other albums, and nothing, not even 10,000 days of avocados and rubies and everything all the time, matters.

edit: oh, and Casual Sunday, i think it was you who wanted the Sunset Rubdown EP, so i wanted to let you know that i finally got all 5 tracks. i can't up them now, but ill do so a little later on. here's hoping you check this thread...

got the EP out of the 2006 leaked thread about 10 minutes ago. havent listened yet cause I got some other listening and some reading of an actual book to do. I love the groove kick in from the title song. the only song I dont like is "if I ever hurt you it will be in self defense"...that one. other than that it is kickin ass still.

my download of this went bumpkus and now the link is down. can we get a re'upper-ooo?

which one were you lookin for agian?

edit. after listening to the EP it is clear to see that the graveyards are the highlight. wonderful low-fi. its a nice little bit but the album bitchslaps the grillz out of it.

the full length. i requested it and sure enough, missed its one day window.

I don't think Solace specified where in his top 3-5 of '06 this album would fall.

Yeah, shit's blocked.

Like Hewlett said, if someone could reup, I'd be ever so grateful.

cuz it won't

really great album though for sure

I'm uploading the mother right now. dont miss it this time

harp://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WQRZEE7DHMM21RCXXOWAI1AC4

Nabbing this bastard as we speak. Thanks a ton for re-upping it for a sorry sommabitch like myself.

Has anyone else noticed how much Spencer Krug sings about snakes?

...on planes...?

i'm halfway through on the first listen. and i really dont know what to think of it. def. different than what i expected, and just when i think i am in love with it, a part in a song happens that i really dont like.
track four sort sucks the momentum right out of this one.

WHAT!?? track #4, "I'm Sorry I Sat on Your Hands..." is one of the 3 best songs.

don't look for rocking stuff on this album, it's the longer, slower stuff that makes it great.

hmmm....
at the least, i feel this is a grower. so we'll see how the second spin goes, i wasn't entirely sold on Wolf Parade either, and it grew to be a favorite of mine from last year.

just got through the first listen, and im still a little iffy on the album as a whole, but the two seven minute trakcs are pretty fan-fucking-tastic.

Thanks for posting this. I liked it once I got past the vocals, and as others have said, I sense it will be a grower. But I have to say, for the moment: Rubies>Apologies to the Queen Mary>That Sunset Rubdown.

not that anyone beyond a select few (myself included) will care, but this is what the back of Shut Up Im Dreaming will look like... (im loving the album art)

When is this supposed to be out? I too am digging the artwork and am anxious to get a real copy.

^ Truth

May 2nd is the big day.

...and i just found out that the album art is done by the same guy who did the art for the Wolf Parade album as well as the Sunset Rubdown EP. i really like his work.

it's definitely a grower...i liked it at first, and now i LOVE it. it's in my top 3 for the year.

but if you like Rubies better than Apologies, then you may be beyond hope.

Rubies is definitely NOT better than Apologies to the Queen Mary. I haven't listened to Shut Up I Am Dreaming enough to judge it yet, but it's probably better than Rubies too.

Seems to be down now

Would anyone mind re-upping it...I'm curious to see what all the fuss is about. Cheers.

Not that it will move anyone to pity, but I'd also love to see it re up'd if someone's got a minute to spare.

rubies = apologies.
sunset rubdown as of yet has not found its way into the equation.

This album was released yesterday and it's still awesome. Better, in some ways, than Wolf Parade. Not as punchy and immediately catchy, but more deeply-felt and beautiful.

I still love Mystics, but for pure emotional impact, Sunset Rubdown have the best album of the year so far.


It's the little album that could.

there you go. thats the spirit.

I think the first half of rubies would win if the later half were equal but I really don't know out of the two, who has the better disc. both are my favorites for the year so far. lets see how swan lake goes down.

8.6

i was hoping for a little higher, but whatever.

i like this part:

"More interesting to note: The cumulative effect of Shut Up I Am Dreaming surpasses "I'll Believe in Anything"'s ostensible perfection. That's a brilliant song, yes, but this a brilliant album, ballooning with those sorts of moments on repeat."

and i agree with the last statement:

"This is rich stuff and it won't be surprising if some listeners prefer Krug's maniacal flights of fancy to Apologies to the Queen Mary's sense of balance. There's obviously much to be said for Wolf Parade's addictive push/pull switch hitting-- that overflowing seep between Bowie/Eno and jittery Iggy/Springsteen-- but it's also incredibly fun watching pop songs pulled apart and restitched into tiny rococo monuments and tossed skyward. All the Wolf Parade comparisons are a drag, sorry, but they're inevitable. Plus, the context's important: Because Krug followed some of the best material on Apologies with this elegant whallop, he's looking increasingly like an important songwriter rather than just another flavor-of-the-month."

8.6 sounds like about what I expected. I would give a higher score but thats another story.

only thing is they didn't even mention the title track, in my opinion worth more words than some of the others.

I'm waiting on cokemachineglow's review being that they seemed very enthusiastic about the ep and Wolf Parade was their number 1 last year. wonder if they are afraid to "beat a dead horse" not knowing it's still alive and kicking

No way, nothing on that album comes close to I'll Believe in Anything.

First listened to it today. Good stuff.

8.6 is about dead on for me

that's because your ears are off by 0.4

they're off by way more if we're talking about Mystics